IBM® WebSphere® Application Server offers options for a faster, more flexible Java application server runtime environment. It offers enhanced reliability and resiliency for building and running applications, including cloud and mobile. It supports environments from single server and midsize configurations to large deployments requiring web tier clustering over multiple application server instances.

You can select the profile of WebSphere Application Server that best meets your operational and business needs. You are fully entitled to use the Full Profile and Liberty Profile in development and production with this edition.

WebSphere Application Server helps you:

Increase developer productivity with open standards and broad programming models, including lightweight options for web deployments.

Deploy and manage applications and services without the constraint of time, location or device type.

Includes the Liberty profile, a dynamic web application server profile.

Enhance security and control using integrated management and administrative tools.

Increase developer productivity

Includes the Liberty profile for fast restart time and building applications that do not require the full Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) environment.

Supports IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology Edition V7.0 as an optional pluggable JDK. Java V6.0 EE is installed with the product and used by default.

Provides Java EE support and certification.

Offers a simple programming model based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server V8.5.5.2 builds on the strengths of previous versions with enhancements for an agile business and application foundation. With continued focus on the lightweight Liberty profile, it provides enhancements to this small footprint with increased capabilities and qualities of service. WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5.2 enhancements include additions to Liberty programming models and enhanced security and management.

Eclipse-based tools enabling a path to cloud adoption scenarios, offering flexibility to develop and test locally and deploy to cloud.

Enhancements to IBM WebSphere Liberty Repository—an online repository, delivering Liberty new product features, samples and information on how to integrate third-party features from partners and open source.

A new mobile-ready administration user interface to manage your Liberty collectives, from individual servers to clusters.

Use WebSphere Application Server Patterns with the enhanced pattern engine in IBM PureApplication Service on SoftLayer to create system and application virtualization patterns directly from the WebSphere Application Server. For more information, see the product documentation in IBM Knowledge Center.